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Klaus Fuchs

German-born British theoretical physicist and atomic spy

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born: 1911
died: 1988
age at death: 76
known for: nuclear physicist, atomic spies, politician

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Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs was a German theoretical physicist, atomic spy, and communist who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II. While at the Los Alamos Laboratory, Fuchs was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons and, later, early models of the hydrogen bomb.

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